you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy
Ruth & Dimitri, in the wake of S9. Spoilers from S5 onward. Title, epigraph, and end quote from Khalil Gibran's The Prophet (Why, hello, S3!).
( there will be a time )
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There is a beat of time upon her arrival, a pause, like shame. Beth spares a quick glance, Dimitri's eyes trail concern, Tariq bolts from the forgery suite and pulls her into a hug. He is warm bones and shaken relief beneath her hands; his face is sharp against her shoulder.
I love how you effortless give a view of the scene and everyone in it. So wonderful.
There's the sound of his heart (rapid, strong, reassuring), and his voice resonating low beneath his sternum. She feels him breathe, say he won't go anywhere; the words make her think of Danny.
GAH!!! The way you describe him.... you are going to be death of me!
Dimitri smirks, reaching past him to open the door. “Sorry the boat didn't manage to beat the rush,” he ( ... )
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AHAH, he does have a sense of humour, I believe, yes. I need that.
So glad the scenes worked! And even though you don't know the backstory, that it still seems complete. Ta! :D
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He draws up close, a sudden warm entity against the dusk, dark, his breath a steady comfort. He stands passive, broad and demure. Her stomach churns against his voice saying her name. “Ruth.”
Amazing. Amazing. Rrrr.
Lucas North is tall, what could be called intimidating, with eyes the colour of sky. (Afghan, if Dimitri wants to be precise, but his teeth grate at the idea of the Persian Gulf.)
I *loved* the scenes with Lucas. I loved the sense that Dimitri likes men too (rrrr YUM Oh God, Paul! *wibble*) and the dialogue was fantastic. Plus Dimitri with his hood up, mmmm.
One of the men stares, open. Dimitri wishes he didn't have Paul's eyes.
I loved the way you described the water, and well, everything. Wet Dimitri would definitely be worth staring at! nomnomnom.
Oh God! Paul! The angst and what they had was brilliantly written. I could read that all day.
“Yes,” she says finally. Barely blinks for the lie. (Harry's face, in hers, corridor light ( ... )
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You liked Paul? Yay! I was a bit nervous about that part. (I swear I read in the pre-S9 interviews that Dimitri was supposedly bisexual. So.)
SORRY TO HAVE KILLED YOU.
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I thought the way you brought out her feelings about Harry was amazing. So powerful. I almost feel sorry for him!! The bastard!! :D
Oh Paul! That's still making me wibble. Dimitri is so very bisexual :D I want more Paul and Dimitri!
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Paul! I don't know where he came from... oh gosh, you want more, well, you'll have to tell me what you want, then. :D
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What. A. Read.
This is your best work so far, methinks, and that is saying something (considering all your other work is fantastic.)
It's so powerful and the ending scene between Ruth and Dimitri sent me shivers.
I don't know what else to say - it's so, so good.
I'm adding this to my mems so I can come back and read it again and again.
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The stuff about Tom and Zoe and Dimitri and Paul. This was so good I wish it had happened in an episode. You've managed to give Dimitri more personality in a fan fic, then the Spooks writers managed in all of series nine.
And as much as I am/was? a Ruth/Harry shipper, sometimes I think that the best thing for poor Ruth is to find someone else and leave the Grid altogether.
Definitely a fic to treasure :)
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I do miss Tom and Zoe. And Dimitri needed personality, and backstory. It was sadly lacking in S9 - but now I'm afraid that if they give him some background in S10, I won't like it as much as what I have here.
I've never been a Harry/Ruth shipper, can you tell? I just - I just think, that with all the crap they've been through, and how much of the shit in her life Ruth can blame on Harry, that he's not worth it. I feel like she's incredibly angry, ever since Cyprus - with Harry, herself - and she just needs something to move on, but she doesn't know what it is.
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I swear I remember the actor playing Dimitri saying Dimitri had a crush on Ruth. I don't remember seeing that play out in series nine at all. More's the pity :P
I was a crazy Ruth/Harry shipper till series eight and nine and now I am not so sure. I feel like alot of Spooks fandom don't really understand the complexity of the Ruth emotional plot because they place so much importance on R/H.
In many ways I am with you. Ruth deserves happiness and maybe she can never have true happiness with Harry. I wrote a fan fic called The Black Balloon about this actually. There is more than one kind of way to fall in love and somtimes I think Ruth needs a new start with someone else to truly be at peace. I don't know. I'm a biased shipper because I always loved Ruth more as a character.
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I remember him saying that too! And that didn't really play out - next year, plz.
YES, I so agree with you about people not seeing the complexity of it. They place everything on R/H, but, but, that - I don't think that can happen, anymore. I think everything that's happened in S5-9 has changed them too much for it to be the same, like if they did get together, then all of it would just hang over their heads, forever. That sounds melodramatic, but Ruth blames Harry for so much, and she's got this anger in her now that wasn't there before Cyprus. I've always loved Ruth, and I want her to have happiness, so somehow I feel like Harry won't be the best option for that. And in a way, they're already work-married. Like Ruth says, they 'couldn't be more together, than they are right now.' Because the work is them. What would they do without it? What happens when they leave it? They're so linked, by the job, and if that goes, then I don't know what they would do with
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